Remember the Elevens, the forthcoming New York restaurant (with a menu by Daniel Patterson) that wanted to raise $1 million from crowd-sourcing and micro-financing? It’s surely a creative idea, but it’s not so easy to get 2,000 investors ($500 each). It was supposed to open in May, but only 154 people are aboard. [New York Times]

Ray Isle explains how a bottle of Napa Cabernet changed his life: “I was in my mid-twenties, working in a rare-book store, trying to write a novel (of course) and trying, like almost everyone else I knew, to figure out what I was doing with my life … And yet, after that night, and almost entirely due to the dinner-long siege that the bottle of Diamond Creek had laid to my indifference, I started buying wine.” [Food & Wine]

A taste test of Pizza Hut’s hot dog stuffed crust pizza: “The bread was fake and weird but chewy like a bagel. I soon neared the end of my slice and its bedoughed, pink-brown phallus. I took a tentative bite.It was a hot dog sausage. It was rubbery and processed and salty and smoky. How, in its own filthy way, could it be anything other than delicious?”[Guardian]

North Korea is launching rockets, but this is the important question of the day: Is green Chartreuse now the hipster Jagermeister? [Details]